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India and Britain last week published taxation budgets for the year ahead. The underlying objectives are closely similar. But the Indian budget is much more imaginative.
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| | New star wars row 302
The private dispute at Geneva over star wars may yet be drowned by rows between allies.
doi:10.1038/314302a0
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| | Illegality proliferates 302
The US administration should be more diligent in preventing nuclear proliferation
doi:10.1038/314302b0
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| | British research: Research council offers hope for astronomers 303
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/314303a0
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| | Acid rain: US/Canada stand-off (contd) 303
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/314303b0
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| | Exhaust emissions: Europe's fiercest battle yet? 304
Anna Lubinska
doi:10.1038/314304a0
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| | Catalytic converters or lean-burn? 304
Anna Lubinska
doi:10.1038/314304b0
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| | CERN collision 304
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/314304c0
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| | infant mortality: US improvement halted 305
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/314305a0
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| | European synchrotron source: More horse-trading on sites 305
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/314305b0
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| | French applied science: Researchers help but stay put 306
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/314306a0
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| | UK higher education: Modest extra for high-tech 306
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/314306b0
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| | Soviet academy: Winds of change discerned 307
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/314307a0
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| | Soviet genticist: Smuggling charge dropped 307
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/314307b0
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| | UK−Japan exchange: Go East young man 308
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/314308a0
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| | Asbestos: Claims centre in sight 308
Tom Burroughs
doi:10.1038/314308b0
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| | Universities clouded 308
doi:10.1038/314308c0
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| | Whales: UN scientist takes a hand 309
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/314309a0
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| | European telecommunications: Commission plans ahead 309
Anna Lubinska
doi:10.1038/314309b0
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| | European biotechnology 309
Anna Lubinska
doi:10.1038/314309c0
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| | Better safe than sorry 310
JEREMY BRAY
doi:10.1038/314310a0
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| | Yellow rain 310
JEANNE GUILLEMIN
doi:10.1038/314310b0
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| | Australian databank 310
A.H. REISNER & CAROLYN BUCHOLTZ
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| | A new type of forest decline in Germany 311
There is much concern about the state of West Germany's large forests which are threatened by an unprecedented decline. Research into its causes no longer focuses on acid rain, but on a possible interaction of increased ozone concentrations, acid mist and climatic factors.
L.W. Blank
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| | Recalculating interatomic forces 315
The van der Waals force between atoms and molecules is generally taken to be inversely proportional to the inverse sixth power of the distance, but positronium atoms may interact differently.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/314315a0
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| | Synthetic fuels: From lignin to coal in a year 316
John Larsen
doi:10.1038/314316a0
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| | Early mathematical wheelwork: Byzantine calendrical gearing 316
Francis Maddison
doi:10.1038/314316b0
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| | Immunogenetics: Lymphocyte development genes and immunodeficiency disease 318
S. Darling & P. Goodfellow
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| | Molecular biology: Coordination of sequence data 318
Arthur M. Lesk
doi:10.1038/314318b0
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| | [News and Views 'picture story'] 319
doi:10.1038/314319a0
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| | Astronomy: Supernovae and the distance scale 320
Sidney van den Bergh
doi:10.1038/314320a0
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| | Palaeontology: Scottish window on terrestrial life in the Lower Carboniferous 320
Andrew R. Milner
doi:10.1038/314320b0
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| | Cytoskeleton: Myosin filaments in cytoplasm 321
Thomas D. Pollard
doi:10.1038/314321a0
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| | Plasma physics: Fusion in magnetized plasmas 322
A.C. Riviere
doi:10.1038/314322a0
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| | 100 years ago 322
doi:10.1038/314322b0
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| | New constraint on biomedical research? 323
R.A. Tatouille
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| | Amazonian Indians and the forest environment 324
BRIAN M. BOOM
doi:10.1038/314324a0
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| | Electrical aspects of the snowflake crystal 324
ROALD A. SCHRACK
doi:10.1038/314324b0
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| | Source of Precambrian chemical and clastic sediments 325
R. G. Miller & R. K. O'Nions
doi:10.1038/314325a0
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| | Transmission and expression of a specific pair of rearranged immunoglobulin  and  genes in a transgenic mouse line 330
Sandro Rusconi & Georges Köhler
doi:10.1038/314330a0
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| | Gravitational radiation from a solid-crust neutron star 334
M. Ali Alpar & David Pines
doi:10.1038/314334a0
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| | Hubble's constant and exploding carbon−oxygen white dwarf models for Type I supernovae 337
W. David Arnett, David Branch & J. Craig Wheeler
doi:10.1038/314337a0
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| | Hydrated interplanetary dust particle linked with carbonaceous chondrites? 338
Kazushige Tomeoka & Peter R. Buseck
doi:10.1038/314338a0
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| | Magnetic reversals and mass extinctions 341
David M. Raup
doi:10.1038/314341a0
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| | Lead isotope differences between whole-rock and phenocrysts in recent lavas from southern Italy 343
M. Cortini & P. W. C. van Calsteren
doi:10.1038/314343a0
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| | Andean-trending mobile belts in the Brazilian Shield 345
M. Litherland, B. A. Klinck, E. A. O'Connor & P. E. J. Pitfield
doi:10.1038/314345a0
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| | Oceanic solitons, nutrient pulses and phytoplankton growth 348
P. M. Holligan, R. D. Pingree & G. T. Mardell
doi:10.1038/314348a0
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| | Lake acidification in Galloway: a palaeoecological test of competing hypotheses 350
Richard W. Battarbee, Roger J. Flower, Anthony C. Stevenson & Brian Rippey
doi:10.1038/314350a0
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| | Sediment and pollen evidence for an early to mid-Holocene humid period in the eastern Sahara 352
J. C. Ritchie, C. H. Eyles & C. V. Haynes
doi:10.1038/314352a0
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| | A terrestrial fauna from the Scottish Lower Carboniferous 355
S. P. Wood, A. L. Panchen & T. R. Smithson
doi:10.1038/314355a0
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| | Multiple innervation of tonic endplates revealed by activity-dependent uptake of fluorescent probes 357
Jeff W. Lichtman, Robert S. Wilkinson & Mark M. Rich
doi:10.1038/314357a0
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| | Activation of protein kinase C potentiates isoprenaline-induced cyclic AMP accumulation in rat pinealocytes 359
David Sugden, Jiri Vanecek, David C. Klein, Thomas P. Thomas & Wayne B. Anderson
doi:10.1038/314359a0
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| | Human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor is a neutrophil activator 361
Richard H. Weisbart, David W. Golde, Steven C. Clark, Gordon G. Wong & Judith C. Gasson
doi:10.1038/314361a0
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| | Levels of c-myc oncogene mRNA are invariant throughout the cell cycle 363
Craig B. Thompson, Peter B. Challoner, Paul E. Neiman & Mark Groudine
doi:10.1038/314363a0
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| | c-myc oncogene protein synthesis is independent of the cell cycle in human and avian cells 366
Stephen R. Hann, Craig B. Thompson & Robert N. Eisenman
doi:10.1038/314366a0
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| | Isolation of a cDNA clone corresponding to an X-linked gene family (XLR) closely linked to the murine immunodeficiency disorder xid
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David I. Cohen, Stephen M. Hedrick, Ellen A. Nielsen, Peter D'Eustachio, Frank Ruddle, Alfred D. Steinberg, William E. Paul & Mark M. Davis
doi:10.1038/314369a0
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| | Expression of an X-linked gene family (XLR) in late-stage B cells and its alteration by the xid mutation 372
David I. Cohen, Alfred D. Steinberg, William E. Paul & Mark M. Davis
doi:10.1038/314372a0
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David Pellman, Ellen A. Garber, Frederick R. Cross & Hidesaburo Hanafusa
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| | Specific expression of a foreign  -globin gene in erythroid cells of transgenic mice 377
Kiran Chada, Jeanne Magram, Kathryn Raphael, Glenn Radice, Elizabeth Lacy & Frank Costantini
doi:10.1038/314377a0
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| | Partial deficiency of erythrocyte spectrin in hereditary spherocytosis 380
Peter Agre, James F. Casella, William H. Zinkham, Campbell McMillan & Vann Bennett
doi:10.1038/314380a0
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T. Callaghan & M. Benziman
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J. THORNER
doi:10.1038/314384a0
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K. MIZUNO & H. MATSUO
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| | Water in the hydrocarbon core of micelles 385
B. CABANE & T. ZEMB
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| | Water in the hydrocarbon core of micelles (reply) 385
S. H. CHEN & K. DILL
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| | Species variation in sensitivity of general anaesthesia to high pressure 386
DAVID LODGE
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| | Species variation in sensitivity of general anaesthesia to high pressure (reply) 386
E. B. SMITH, F. BOWSER-RILEY, S. DANIELS, I. T. DUNBAR, C. B. HARRISON & W. D. M. PATON
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| | Fundamental developments 387
R.H. Dalitz reviews Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics.
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Andrew Pickering
doi:10.1038/314387a0
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| | Channels defined 388
Charles F. Stevens reviews Ionic Channels of Excitable Membranes.
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Bertil Hille
doi:10.1038/314388a0
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| | The changing face of the Earth 389
Robert P. Beckinsale reviews A Short History of Geomorphology.
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Keith J. Tinkler
doi:10.1038/314389a0
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| | A chip off the old block 389
E.N.K. Clarkson reviews Living Fossils.
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doi:10.1038/314389b0
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| | Books Received 390
doi:10.1038/314390a0
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